When National Interest Becomes the Attack Surface

Why the Shift Away from Globalization Is Forcing Boards and CISOs to Rethink Cybersecurity Reporting

For decades, globalization shaped how businesses, governments, and boards thought about risk. Supply chains were optimized for efficiency, technology was sourced globally, and cybersecurity was treated as a shared — and often diluted — responsibility. When something broke, scale absorbed the shock.

That world is disappearing fast.

As national interests, local supply chains, and strategic autonomy replace globalization as the dominant economic model, cybersecurity risk is not shrinking. It is concentrating. And nowhere is that shift more poorly understood than in the boardroom.

The End of Abstract Cyber Risk

Cybersecurity reporting was built for a globalized economy. Heat maps, maturity scores, and framework alignment made sense when disruption was survivable and redundancy was baked into scale. A supplier outage in one region rarely stopped the business entirely. Risk could be averaged. Losses could be spread.

Localization breaks that model.